December 13, 2020 • 35 mins
This week, we discuss a Yuletide Tour of Walt Disney World Resorts including must do gingerbread stops and must-see Christmas trees at Disney. All free ways to enjoy a day at Disney during Christmas. We also cover 5 MUST DOs at Disney during the holidays including buying a Christmas ornament, seeing the Gingerbread house at the Grand Floridian, playing in the Snope (Florida snow), seeing the reindeer and toy soldiers at Magic Kingdom, and riding the Jingle Cruise in Adventureland at Magic Kingdom.
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Chris (00:04):
You're listening to SuperCali, super, oh whatever
the infernal thing is,supercalifragilistic awesome
Disney podcast. Each week, we'regoing to talk about three
things. In Main Street USA,We'll talk about the latest
Disney news my "partridge in apear tree" underwear needs
washing. Oh, well then myChristmas wish has been granted.
In TomorrowLand we'll talk aboutthe things we're looking forward
(00:25):
to. "What do you want with me?
You will be haunted by threespirits. I'd rather not." And
world showcase is dedicated toour favorite Disney adventures.
It's Christmas Eve.. a time ofmystery, expectation. Who knows
what might happen? So let's getthis show on the road. Please
stand clear of the doors PorFavor Mantengase Alejado De Las
(00:48):
Puertas. Hey there, everybody.
Welcome to this week's show.
Another Christmas show. I'massuming mine is Christmas.
Kelli (00:57):
Christmas. That's
Chris (00:58):
Chris. This is Chris.
Kelli (01:00):
And I'm Kelly.
Chris (01:01):
And Miss Piggy years.
Kelli (01:03):
I was Miss Piggy tonight.
Um, you know they are comfy.
They're not overly bulky.
Chris (01:10):
Listen, and I think you are gonna hate this but you with
a little purple bow off to
Unknown (01:16):
one side. And some pearls,
Chris (01:18):
some pearls and I'm in a big jewel.
Kelli (01:21):
I mean, I think honestly wearing the pig ears around. The
Epcot festival the holidays nextnext week, it's really sort of
spot on.
Unknown (01:30):
So I kind of on the nose.
Kelli (01:31):
It's kind of on the nose.
There might be a little bit toomuch.
Chris (01:34):
Yeah, I get well they look great on you. Yeah, well,
Kelli (01:36):
you so good but you're biased.
thank
Chris (01:38):
Appreciate it. Ah, that's right. And we when this show
airs, we Yes. Having a colddrink at or Jock Lindsey's Yes,
absolutely. I cannot wait. Hey,so as usual, my favorite part of
the week is looking to see whereall the downloads come from.
(01:59):
This week. We actually had moreunique cities download than any
other week since we launchedWow, this is super exciting.
Okay. enjoyed seeing Texas City,Texas. Okay, which is right on
the coast between Houston andthe water. Okay, which is really
cool. Right there nearGalveston, Ogden, Utah, which I
(02:20):
know someone in Ogden, Utahactually
Kelli (02:23):
really okay.
Chris (02:24):
Saugus, Massachusetts.
Wow. And very excited to seePerth, Australia. Perth,
Australia, Australia, the westcoast of Australia. Wow. Yeah.
But under-appreciated west coastof Australia.
Kelli (02:38):
You know, I did mention to you that one of our listeners
is bitter that we have notcalled out her town. Yeah,
Chris (02:43):
yeah. No. And I don't know. I mean, I feel pretty
strongly now about not callingout any of those towns already
Kelli (02:49):
very angry to you for other reasons. That's where you
want to go.
Chris (02:56):
I love her, but she holds no sway over me. Oh, wow. Gosh,
man. I'm just
Kelli (03:01):
you feeling it. I
Chris (03:01):
really sort of hate that I said that just now.
Kelli (03:03):
I kind of do to you are feeling it tonight. Just go
ahead and say to that listener,it's not you. And it's
Chris (03:10):
been this way all day.
We're about the ride. And I needa vacation man. Hey, and
speaking of vacation, what agreat accidental segue. So we
are going to take what a coupleweeks off here weeks.
Kelli (03:27):
Yes,
Chris (03:27):
Christmas. This will be our last regularly scheduled
weekly show of this year. Wewill we will be back better than
ever. In January season three,season three. We've got a couple
of ideas for what we're going tocover in season three. Yep. And
very excited about that. But youwon't go quite radio silent in
(03:52):
the next couple of weeks. We'vegot some fun, bonus material
that we plan to release over thenext couple of weeks just so
that you know you continue tohear our dulcet tones. Yes, we
Kelli (04:03):
do have some bonus stuff planned. And also, we'll spend
the next couple of weeks sort ofplanning for season three,
because it's going to be alittle bit different. And we're
excited about it. Yeah,
Chris (04:11):
yeah. Awesome. So let's hit up Main Street. Let's
Kelli (04:14):
do it.
Chris (04:16):
Okay, so entertainment.
There's really one big news itemanybody that follows Disney as
close as we do, or even youwould have seen this on if you
follow Twitter, you would haveseen this trending all week was
Disney investor day, which tookplace a few days ago. And this
is actually I think needs to bebonus material. There's just too
(04:37):
much to go over Yeah, theyliterally released all of their
new projects on all of theirproperties. Hulu FX networks
Lucasfilm which is Star Wars,National Geographic Disney plus
TV series
Kelli (04:55):
all their media property
Chris (04:56):
all their media programs.
Yes, yes. Disney films, DisneyAnimation Pixar Marvel, they
have got like, long term amazingplans for all of these
platforms. And some of thereally exciting ones Star Wars
Marvel Disney Animation, Pixarreally need their own little
bonus episodes. So very excitedto try to dig into that. But it
(05:16):
makes me think about those twostorytellers in the Frozen Ever
After show that talk about allthe money. Oh, yeah, raining
money. That's that's just what Ikeep going through my head when
I see all this stuff thatthey're gonna release. Yes. So,
uh, Margot Robbie, I think ishow you pronounce her name. She
is going to be taking over thelead role in the Pirates of the
(05:40):
Caribbean movies.
Kelli (05:44):
Wow. Yeah. She's been in the previous No, no.
Chris (05:49):
So Johnny Depp has had a bit of a year as we all have,
but if you could make the yearworse his has been worse. And so
he lost some court cases andhe's been removed from Pirates
movies. He's been removed fromthe Fantastic Beasts Movies as
Gridelwald.
Unknown (06:11):
Wow.
Chris (06:12):
Yep. Mads Mickelson is going to be replacing him as
Grindelwald. In those movies hewas Le Chiffre in Casino Royale.
Kelli (06:19):
Oh, wow. That's creepier like Johnny Depp is kind of
crazy. Yeah, but Le Chiffre iscrazy.
Chris (06:24):
Yeah, he's been even creepier in other things he's
been in. It's a good person toput in that role. Sure. He'll do
great in that. just sort of sadfor Depp's career. I mean, his
career can literally be overnow. They had actually announced
a pirate's reboot at the sametime that they were still
working on Johnny Depp's newpirates movie, and Jerry
(06:46):
Bruckheimer was producing bothof them. But now I think, I
don't know this for sure. I'vejust tried to read between the
lines of the news, but it lookslike the one that Depp was going
to be in like the sixth orwhatever. Johnny Depp, Jack
Sparrow pirates movie is sort ofdead in the water. And ha
Kelli (07:04):
ha ha, ha. Oh, man.
Chris (07:06):
I didn't even plan that.
It sunk as it were. That'sawesome. So they're actually
going to reboot, I think theseries now with Margot Robbie as
the lead, okay. And it wouldjust go as all female led. So I
think it's written and directedby women. And she plays the
(07:26):
role. And the reason and thisactually was announced back in
June. And it just wasn't on myradar back then. But it came
back around in the news becauseshe has suggested that she wants
her character to be LGBTQfriendly.
Kelli (07:44):
Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.
Chris (07:45):
So very, very cool.
things going on in the pirates.
Yeah,
Kelli (07:51):
franchise there. That's fantastic. Yeah.
Chris (07:54):
So, some little resort stuff as of December the seventh
so this past week, because ofall the spiking COVID cases,
please wear masks people.
California has basically shuteverything down again. So as of
last week, Downtown Disney andone of us a street at Disneyland
where they had some restaurantsthat were open Oh,
Kelli (08:19):
those are shut down.
Chris (08:20):
The Disney run ones are absolutely shut down. some third
party restaurants are doing likecarry out service only. Wow. But
just
Kelli (08:30):
square one, really? And wear the masks.
Chris (08:34):
That's right man wear the masks. And for anyone that's
planning to go to Walt DisneyWorld over New Years, it's a
little bit it's very differentthis year, right? There's not
going to be midnight fireworkshows and all the parks like
they've done in years past so Ithought it was really nice. They
put out this little blurb on theon their website about how if
(08:56):
you're going to be there everytwo years, how can you celebrate
like in your room? Oh, that'sright. So okay, you can you can
create your own in roomcelebration with food and
beverages and celebratory itemsfor purchase. So the Disney
floral and gifts company. Theyoffer holiday baskets that you
(09:19):
can buy various price rangesthat come with champagne and
party favors and party hats andnoisemakers all these kinds of
things in there. Yep, selectresort merchandise locations
will be open past midnight. Somequick service restaurants in
certain resorts will be openpast midnight so you can you
know bring food in. Some of theresorts will have like scavenger
(09:42):
hunts and New Year's Eve craftevents and stuff like that going
late into the evening. Sothey're they're really trying to
give guests that are going to bethere on New Year's something
that I can do that feelscelebratory. That's fun.
Obviously all the TVs runregular network. stations and so
they'll be able to see you know,New Year's Rockin Eve and all
(10:03):
that stuff. But Disney will alsohave, like their firework shows
their special firework showstheir New Year's Eve firework
show their mini special holidayfireworks. Okay, etc that will
have those streaming on.
Kelli (10:17):
Oh, now that's fun. I was gonna say they could still do
the fireworks in the park. Ornot in the park at midnight.
Yeah, I still do. Have
Chris (10:25):
you thought about that.
But like, if you did that, atMagic Kingdom, people are gonna
gather on the beach atPolynesian. Yeah. And they're
gonna gather on the rooftop orright there where the monorail
station is at contemporary andyeah, try to watch him. People,
people,
Kelli (10:42):
you know, people are constantly trying to write the
rules.
Chris (10:45):
We know first. So yeah, so that's all I've got that,
like said the big news was allthe stuff that came out of
Disney investor day. And I wouldrecommend if you're on Twitter,
go to Twitter, just hashtagDisney investor day. And you
could be there for a weekreading all the stuff that
they're doing. Yeah. What itwhat it tells me though is man
Disney is all in on theirstreaming services. They I am
(11:11):
absolutely for all the effortthey're putting in they put out
really quality content.
Kelli (11:16):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Okay, so that's all the news.
That's it. Okay. So do you wanta trivia question? This is the
last trivia question of theseason only
Chris (11:27):
because it has given you such stress,
Kelli (11:29):
last trivia question of the season. But I will say even
if we were going to do two moreepisodes, like this month, you
still wouldn't be able to evenbreak even you're at negative
375 right now, even if you getthis one, right, which you will,
and then you got the next two,right, you're still not going to
break even over the season.
Okay. So I mean, I'm just sayingyou know, pressures off, you're
(11:50):
not gonna you're not gonna dothis thing. Great. I know. I
stress these. Okay, here we go.
Disney introduced its firstanimated openly gay character in
which movie?
Chris (12:05):
Um, you know, this animated. Yeah. openly gay
character,
Kelli (12:11):
openly gay animated character and which may be done.
Chris (12:17):
I mean, I've got an answer, but I don't think it's
right.
Kelli (12:18):
Okay. Well, what's your answer?
Chris (12:20):
answers? Le Fu from Beauty and the Beast, but
Kelli (12:22):
he was not openly gay.
Not there. Right. Yeah,
Chris (12:25):
he went to the live action. Not
Kelli (12:26):
yet. He actually passed the Vito Russo test. But I mean,
Oh, lovely. horribly. Oh, wait,
Chris (12:31):
I know who it is. Yes. Is that is that is that police
Kelli (12:36):
telling me the name of the movie? Not the name of the
person.
Chris (12:38):
It's in. onward.
Kelli (12:40):
Yes. You make things so hard. Why are you making things
so hard?
I mean, I clearly said the nightin which movie? Yeah. And you're
like, Oh, it's Le Fu. Movie.
What is this movie?
Chris (13:00):
My I'm sorry. My executive functioning has taken
a dive
Kelli (13:04):
today are really struggling. really struggling
and I get it Honey, I get it.
I'm there. Let's let's go toTomorrowland. All right,
Chris (13:13):
I'm down with it. Okay, so my Tomorrowland. I saw some
folks talking about this idea onthe socials. And there's always
this running idea on socials.
What do you do? When you do it?
When you don't go to a park?
What does a non Park day looklike for you? Okay. And then
people always throw out lots ofgreat idea is whether it's pull
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days or go to Disney Springs andwatch a movie or whatever. And
somebody threw out somethingthat I've heard before, but not
in this context. And it's agreat idea. This is a self
guided Yuletide tour of the WaltDisney resorts. Oh, wow. So
every Park has at least onespectacular Christmas tree.
(14:02):
Right. Okay. And so it's alwayseasy, or it's tempting just to
talk about the decor, theChristmas feel of the parks,
because they do a great job. Butyou can actually have this
wonderful day of DisneyChristmas awesomeness by just
touring some of the resorts.
(14:27):
Okay, and I have to say that andthat's free by the way you're
right Disney you spend a freeday just filling up on Christmas
cheer,
Kelli (14:35):
right? I don't know that.
It might be kitten might not bekid friendly.
Chris (14:39):
Yeah, maybe Yeah. more of an adult thing.
Unknown (14:41):
I'm very cool with that. But
Chris (14:42):
you can feed them a lot of you know, Christmas. Oh,
sugar. Sugar him up.
Kelli (14:47):
Yeah, put him on the monorail code v.
Or on the monorail was wheresomeone had an upset stomach.
And the monorail person yell,Code V.
Chris (15:06):
I knew that's what they did when when we had a situation
like that, but I had notactually seen it in action. And
Kelli (15:12):
it was really a very real thing. Okay, so go ahead, sorry.
So yuletide cheer.
Chris (15:19):
Yuletide cheer. So yeah, so there's the Disney resorts
just go over and above when itcomes to decorating for
Christmas, and the good peopleat Disney tourists blog, have a
wonderful and I was thinking Iwas like, how do I do this? How
(15:39):
do I talk about like goingaround and seeing the Disney
decor at the resorts, Disneytourist blog, I highly recommend
go to their site, they do awonderful job. They have
actually put out a a step bystep guide on how to most
efficiently go from place toplace to place to place and what
(16:00):
to look for specific. Oh,
Kelli (16:01):
wow, how much fun is that?
Chris (16:04):
Yeah. And they like started the Magic Kingdom and
walk here and then take themonorail to here and then go
back to here and take the ferryto here and they literally and
then they tell you what to lookfor. in great detail. That's
fantastic resort. Yeah. So theyso go there and get that tool
step by step. They do like a oneday tour and a two day tour. Or
(16:25):
resorts. Yeah. So just justthey, I'm really wanting to make
sure that we hear about dizzytours blog.com because they put
a lot of effort into that. Andit had to be wonderful to go.
Kelli (16:37):
Seriously just to create that. Yes, that's something we'd
love to do. And you'd bust outyour spreadsheet in a heartbeat
map that kind of thing out
Chris (16:44):
and they have and they clearly had a good time because
they put a lot of effort intoit. So go check that out Disney
tours blog.com So, and I'm goingto be talking about some of
these resorts I'm talking aboutsome of my favorite ones that
some of these we have never seena Christmas before. Okay, and
(17:05):
but I'm excited about it becausebecause I know at least one of
them. We're going to see thistime Okay, this I'm going to
talk about gingerbread houseseven though in 2020 they don't
have gingerbread houses rightwhich is a bummer. Some of the
resorts that typically havedecor are not even open like
port Orleans Riverside andFrench Quarter. Polly has
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usually has this big beautifulChristmas tree in the lobby but
probably doesn't this yearbecause of all the construction
that they're doing. And but youknow just in case you want to
plan for 2021 when everything isgoing to absolutely be better
right? Right Please tell me yesit's and gingerbread houses we
back and all that so well. Let'stalk about it a little bit.
(17:50):
Okay, so the first one on mylist here we have done before is
the Grand Floridian in terms oftheir their christmas decor. The
Grand Floridian was was just oneof these it's it's a stop for
people anyway yeah my grandmomyeah could not go to Disney
without going to the GrandFloridian
Kelli (18:10):
right it's beautiful it not during Christmas,
Chris (18:12):
right? But then at Christmas time they've got this
huge four storey lobby that'sdominated by this huge Christmas
tree that goes up to the verytop floor it's it's all gold and
silver and why they've got like,like literal bird cages on the
Christmas tree and birds andit's it's just so massive and
(18:35):
pretty. And then you got theirgrand piano on the floor, you
know and all the garland goingaround the railings. Yeah, but
the other thing about whatdominates the lobby of the Grand
Floridian is their gingerbreadhouse right? Their gingerbread
house is literally a 14 foottall functional house. Okay? It
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serves
Kelli (18:56):
different every year This isn't a kit they put together
they build a literally
Chris (19:00):
and all these I'm going to mention multiple gingerbread
houses remember they they theyliterally bake these things and
assemble and build them. Butwhat makes this one stand out is
that it's actually a functionalsnack shack. They literally sell
things out of it knickknacks andand treats and candies and all
these
Kelli (19:20):
special on Disney plus about the gingerbread house
building. I thought we watchedsomething oh there.
Unknown (19:25):
We did watch. I think there
Kelli (19:27):
is you go out there and look for this one. Yeah, because
it's amazing. It's
Chris (19:31):
the building that gingerbread
Kelli (19:32):
I think it is. Yeah, yeah, go watch that.
Chris (19:34):
Yep. So but the what is widely considered the best place
to go at Disney for Christmas isthe Wilderness Lodge. Disney
tourist blog set it like this.
Wilderness Lodge is the besthotel at Christmas. Not just in
Walt Disney World, anywhere. Thedecorations, the music, the tree
(19:58):
or Are all gorgeous and rifewith detail. And this is truly a
matter of the whole thing beingthe sum of it better than the
sum of its parts. Again, wow,this is a, this is another, my
favorite ones are all gonna havea theme here. They're all these
huge grand lobbies with multifloors and these trees that
dominate the rights, thelandscape there. But what my
(20:20):
impression that I get out ofWilderness Lodge is we've never
been here at Christmas time. Inmy recollection Anyway, what I
get out of this is that this isthe one where when you walk
through the doors, youlegitimately feel like you have
stepped out of wherever it wasyou were Florida, and you have
stepped into the CanadianNorthwestern Pacific Northwest
(20:45):
wilderness at Christmas time.
Covered woods, you know, andyou, you assume that the outside
world is just covered with snow.
Because of this Christmas onbeyond that you're that you've
just stepped into the tree iscovered with like, little Native
American teepees that flickerbecause they've got fires
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supposedly fire on the inside ofthem, right. And handmade,
decorative animals from thePacific Northwest. And, again,
the tree is massive. And they'vegot all these other trees
scattered throughout the lobbyarea in the sitting area. How
cute. It's just it just takesover your senses. For for
Christmas, right? And the otherone that I'm really excited
(21:31):
about seeing and we're going todefinitely see it on this trip
is Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Kelli (21:36):
I'm excited about that.
YouTube, we've never been there.
Chris (21:38):
We've never stepped in the building at all ever in my
life. This is another one ofthese grand lobbies. multitier
with a tree that dominates itreally takes the same sort of
plan for Christmas thatWilderness Lodge does. Some
people actually think it'sbetter. But where the Wilderness
Lodge had Pacific Northwesttheming on the tree. This has
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African theming on the tree. Soa lot of African animals in
handcrafts and wicker Africaninstruments. Okay. And then you
again, you've got the garlandand what really just sets these
places over the top is themusic, the Christmas loops that
they play. Each resort has loopsdesigned specifically for that
(22:24):
resort. Oh, wow. So you canactually go on YouTube. If you
want to take a little miniChristmas vacation in your own
home, you can go into YouTubeand find a lot of these
Christmas loops with likeimagery from those resorts
Kelli (22:40):
on YouTube. Should totally do that. While we're
opening presents on Christmas. I
Chris (22:43):
think that's exactly what we're gonna do. You know, I
started listening to the MagicKingdom loop while I was working
recently. But But I think thatthat's what they say is that
these the music with with thedecor, it just is you you
literally are no longer like atDisney. You're just in a
Christmas Wonderland. And that'sexciting. Yeah, some of
Kelli (23:07):
the other day for that.
No, we
Chris (23:09):
don't have a day for that this year. But that would be
Kelli (23:11):
I would totally be up Yeah. Beach Club
Chris (23:14):
is also a big deal. I didn't even get to all the the
gingerbread houses but YachtClub boardwalk and Grand Destino
Tower are also other resortsthat Disney tours blog said that
you absolutely must get to. Weshould
Kelli (23:27):
do that one year.
Chris (23:29):
People talk about taking a resort tour, even when it's
not Christmas time. Right. Butdoing it at Christmas time would
just be great. And you can do itin a day. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. So that will be that'sthat's my Tomorrowland. And is
the Yuletide Christmas tour theDisney resorts.
Kelli (23:46):
Well, that's awesome.
You're ready. I'm ready forWorld showcase. Yeah. So in
honor of losing Stacy, last weekwith must do Disney. I came up
with the top
Chris (23:58):
five Stacy still alive by the way she's alive.
Kelli (24:01):
She's not in the resorts.
I came up with the top five mustdues for us at Disney World
during Christmas. Okay. Now, tobe clear, this does not include
the candlelight processional. Wediscussed that last week and it
only includes things that areincluded in a standard
admission. Okay, in addition toeating right, I'm not including
festival the holidays or thingslike that. This is again like
free stuff you can do five mustdues at Disney at Christmas.
(24:22):
Awesome. Number one,
Chris (24:26):
okay,
Kelli (24:27):
get a Christmas ornament.
We do this at every trip, notjust at Christmas trip. That's
right. There's a permanentChristmas store at Disney
Springs. But then there's also agreat Christmas store in Magic
Kingdom. And you can getChristmas ornaments throughout
Epcot around the world showcaseand all those so we love to buy
Christmas ornaments. So I'mgoing to tell the pixie dust
(24:50):
story, okay. Very first ornamentI want you on I'm not making fun
of this lady. We are we arenothing but All of what these
women can do. But if you've everwatched the ornament decorators,
they're usually older women thathave been doing this for years.
And they just have, it's justamazing to watch them do it.
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Well, one year we were at theDisney Springs shop. It was one
of our first years getting anornament. And we've said the
words that we wanted. And thelady looked at us and she goes,
you want pixie dust. I did notsee that voice coming out of
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that face. And it completelycaught me off guard. But I have
to tell you, we said yes then.
And we've said yes to everyorder that
Chris (25:42):
says yes, I forget to ask us and we say I want the pixie
dust and we have some pixiedust. I
Kelli (25:46):
want the pixie dust. So pro tip if you get an ornament,
get the pixie dust. Yes, you
Chris (25:52):
want the Pixie it's different every time but it's
always perfect.
Kelli (25:56):
Yes. So number two, see the gingerbread house at the
Grand Floridian. So again, likeyou said it's not there this
year, but normally it is lifesize. And like you said they do
have some things that you canbuy in their little shop. They
have cakepops cookie bars, youcan buy your own signature
house, it's like $60 is alreadydecorated. And even like gluten
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free items, they also have mugsand like limited edition pins.
But I think probably the coolesttakeaway is you can actually
purchase a shingle to take homethat's why they sell the
shingles. Isn't that cool? Solet me just give you a breakdown
on last year's ingredients forthe house. 1050 pounds of honey
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140 pints of egg whites 600pounds of powdered sugar
powdered sugar is light y'all
Chris (26:48):
600 pounds of that junk.
Kelli (26:50):
It's a lot of bad sugar.
700 pounds of chocolate. 800pounds of flour. 35 pounds of
spices, tons of creativity,Disney magic and pixie dust 400
hours and 10,000 total shinglesjingyan gingerbread insane
right? That's insane. Crazy.
Yes. So seeing the gingerbreadhouse at the Grand Floridian
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we've always done every timewe've been at Christmas. We've
seen the gingerbread house atthe Grand Floridian. Number
three must do number three. Seethe reindeer and the nutcrackers
in the parade. This year, therecavalcades and this isn't Magic
Kingdom. Yes. Magic Kingdom hasand I I should have worn my
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reindeer shirt tonight. I didn'teven think about it. Oh, bummer.
Magic Kingdom has thesereindeer. Oh, I think they're
hilarious.
Chris (27:45):
They are hilarious.
Kelli (27:46):
They're kind of like stiff
Chris (27:49):
they're very stiff,
Kelli (27:50):
stiff right here. I think that people inside, like see out
their neck or so they
Chris (27:54):
see out like right around their chest neck area. So
everything above that is juststiff.
Kelli (28:00):
Well, one year we went to the very merry christmas party.
Yes. And those reindeer weredancing on the dance floor at
Cosmic Rays. Or like
Chris (28:09):
cafe had turned that into like a DJ party for kids.
Kelli (28:12):
It was the best dance party I've ever seen with those
reindeer. And I'm telling youthey were dancing their little
reindeer butts off, they wereman.
Chris (28:19):
I have never seen reindeer work as hard to get
kids to dance.
Kelli (28:22):
I was so excited to see that the shirt they were selling
for the very merry party had thereindeer on it that year and I
got that I was so proud of thatshirt. I was like I love these
reindeer.
Chris (28:34):
They're shaking it man
Kelli (28:36):
shaking it and you think I hope those costumes have fans
or air conditioning or like aCamelback water. Arabia are
working their butts. Anyway, sothey're also in the parade.
Yeah, I love the rain beer. Alsolove I said the nutcrackers but
are they toy
Chris (28:54):
soldier their toy soldiers their toy
Kelli (28:55):
soldiers. Okay, so I love the toy soldiers in the parade.
And they have like flat feet.
Yeah. So when they come through,it's like clomp, clom
Chris (29:03):
clomp, clomp. But in unison. They're they're stepping
in time. It's so
Kelli (29:08):
it's fantastic. So they're all they're both in the
cavalcades this year. Really?
Yes, the reindeer and the toysoldiers are in the cavalcade.
That's great. I can't wait. SoI'm telling you like I'm more
excited to see them than I amMickey and Minnie in their
Christmas cavalcade of lovethose reindeer once a year. I
love those reindeer and I lovethose toy soldiers so much
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I know right? They're likerobots, right with the clomp,
clomp, clomp. I love them. Okay,number four. Ride the Jingle
Cruise at Magic Kingdom. Yes.
Chris (29:42):
It's a must.
Kelli (29:42):
must do. Must do Disney must do. I should have I should
like go back and watch thatvideo so that I could say it
just like Stacey did. Yeah,
Chris (29:49):
you're doing fine.
Kelli (29:50):
Yeah, let's do Disney. So ride the Jingle Cruise at Magic
Kingdom. There's somethingreally corny about this ride at
Christmas time.
Chris (30:00):
I mean, it's corny all the way all the time.
Kelli (30:02):
But at Christmas time they get to, they get all new
jokes on corny jokes. All new
Chris (30:07):
Christmas corny jokes,
Kelli (30:08):
Christmas corny jokes, you had the regular corny jokes
and now you've got the Christmascorny jokes. It's fantastic.
They change the names of all theboats to have to do with
Christmas. And they change theactual name of the ride up on
the the sign outside. So let'ssay
Chris (30:26):
Jungle Cruise, Jingle Cruise Jingle Cruise. It's got
like a candy cane where they'resupposed to.
Kelli (30:30):
Yes, great. And they really do decorate every inch of
this thing. Except for the backside. of water. I cannot
decorate the back side. That'sright.
Chris (30:43):
They put like they put like garland on the camp side
that's out there that the gearsoverturned by the animals and
they they don't skimp onanything.
Kelli (30:54):
No. And I just always think of like when you're going
through the tunnel. They've evenput things in the title. And you
think who like Who did this? whospends this much time? Like
decorating Jingle Cruise
Chris (31:07):
I know. And like they come up with it every year, they
come up with new things everynew jokes every
Kelli (31:11):
year, right? So I was watching a YouTube video of
somebody going through theJungle Cruise. And I noticed
something that I've nevernoticed before you know you love
these details. And you youtotally get all the details. And
they just go right over my headbecause I'm like we're on the
Jungle Cruise. Whoo. And then Iget off and I go to another. I'm
(31:32):
not adulting and you're likekeeping a spreadsheet of all of
the interconnected jokes. Thatthe guy towards the end the
headhunter. That is trader Sam.
Trader Sam is a store at poly.
Unknown (31:48):
Yes.
Kelli (31:50):
I did not. put those two things together. I know
Chris (32:01):
Kelli.
Kelli (32:02):
Well anyway, in the Jungle Cruise he's trader samta.
And then great.
Chris (32:13):
We are in our mid 40s and laughing like kids about that
joke.
Kelli (32:17):
I don't know. The jokes.
I think like vaguely remind meof Chevy Chase jokes.
Chris (32:23):
Yeah,
Kelli (32:24):
there's some physical humor. There's some like really
corn humor. You can't see theline can you Russ? Have a log
not a log not a yule log. Whatdo you think yule log like it
vaguely reminds me of betterlike her you know Chris vacation
Really? childish
Chris (32:44):
humor really
Kelli (32:44):
childish humor that frankly, we just don't need more
of Okay, and number five andthis is last but most definitely
not least. Snoap. Yes. TheSnoap.
Chris (32:58):
I can remember the first time I saw it. the snoap, I
thought I had stepped into amagical Wonderland.
Kelli (33:02):
Right? It's snowing in Florida. Right.
Chris (33:06):
And it is it feels like snow.
Kelli (33:09):
It does it looks like snow. It feels like snow.
There's Christmas music playingand they do this I believe at
every Park now we've never statewe've ever been an animal
kingdom light enough for them todo snoap.
Chris (33:19):
Yeah, I don't know that they do it. I don't know if they
do it at Epcot or animalkingdom. I've just never I don't
remember ever seeing it okay ineither place. But they
definitely definitely used to doit at Hollywood Studios when
they had the Osborn lights. Andwhen when they launched the snow
on Main Street, USA. I just Ijust I just want to sit there
(33:42):
and maybe get a little misty. Imean, it is just the best.
Kelli (33:47):
So there you go, folks, that's your top five.
Chris (33:51):
that is a serious public service that you just performed.
You're
Kelli (33:55):
all welcome. Top Five must do's at Disney World during
Christmas. So Christmasornament. Gingerbread House at
the Grand Floridian. reindeerand toy soldiers in the parade
at Magic Kingdom. Ride theJungle Cruise and play in the
snoap. I
Chris (34:10):
love it. It's so perfect.
I'm all ready to go. I'm gonnaleave tonight. Folks, that's
this week's show. It was ourlast show of this year 2020 is
gonna be gone when we do thenext show.
Yes excited about that.
But keep an eye out for bonusmaterial. If you enjoyed the
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show, go to iTunes leave us arating leave us a review and we
will just watch all those citiesdownload next week.
Kelli (34:40):
Yes, absolutely. Which I'm sure one of them will be
Paducah, Kentucky. Or BeaufortSouth Carolina
Chris (34:45):
or Columbia, South Carolina.
Kelli (34:46):
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Chris (35:00):
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Kelli (35:02):
so the mac and cheese when we get back,
Chris (35:04):
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Puertas. Hey there, everybody.
Welcome to this week's show.
Another Christmas show. I'massuming mine is Christmas.
Kelli (00:57):
Christmas. That's
Chris (00:58):
Chris. This is Chris.
Kelli (01:00):
And I'm Kelly.
Chris (01:01):
And Miss Piggy years.
Kelli (01:03):
I was Miss Piggy tonight.
Um, you know they are comfy.
They're not overly bulky.
Chris (01:10):
Listen, and I think you are gonna hate this but you with
a little purple bow off to
Unknown (01:16):
one side. And some pearls,
Chris (01:18):
some pearls and I'm in a big jewel.
Kelli (01:21):
I mean, I think honestly wearing the pig ears around. The
Epcot festival the holidays nextnext week, it's really sort of
spot on.
Unknown (01:30):
So I kind of on the nose.
Kelli (01:31):
It's kind of on the nose.
There might be a little bit toomuch.
Chris (01:34):
Yeah, I get well they look great on you. Yeah, well,
Kelli (01:36):
you so good but you're biased.
thank
Chris (01:38):
Appreciate it. Ah, that's right. And we when this show
airs, we Yes. Having a colddrink at or Jock Lindsey's Yes,
absolutely. I cannot wait. Hey,so as usual, my favorite part of
the week is looking to see whereall the downloads come from.
(01:59):
This week. We actually had moreunique cities download than any
other week since we launchedWow, this is super exciting.
Okay. enjoyed seeing Texas City,Texas. Okay, which is right on
the coast between Houston andthe water. Okay, which is really
cool. Right there nearGalveston, Ogden, Utah, which I
(02:20):
know someone in Ogden, Utahactually
Kelli (02:23):
really okay.
Chris (02:24):
Saugus, Massachusetts.
Wow. And very excited to seePerth, Australia. Perth,
Australia, Australia, the westcoast of Australia. Wow. Yeah.
But under-appreciated west coastof Australia.
Kelli (02:38):
You know, I did mention to you that one of our listeners
is bitter that we have notcalled out her town. Yeah,
Chris (02:43):
yeah. No. And I don't know. I mean, I feel pretty
strongly now about not callingout any of those towns already
Kelli (02:49):
very angry to you for other reasons. That's where you
want to go.
Chris (02:56):
I love her, but she holds no sway over me. Oh, wow. Gosh,
man. I'm just
Kelli (03:01):
you feeling it. I
Chris (03:01):
really sort of hate that I said that just now.
Kelli (03:03):
I kind of do to you are feeling it tonight. Just go
ahead and say to that listener,it's not you. And it's
Chris (03:10):
been this way all day.
We're about the ride. And I needa vacation man. Hey, and
speaking of vacation, what agreat accidental segue. So we
are going to take what a coupleweeks off here weeks.
Kelli (03:27):
Yes,
Chris (03:27):
Christmas. This will be our last regularly scheduled
weekly show of this year. Wewill we will be back better than
ever. In January season three,season three. We've got a couple
of ideas for what we're going tocover in season three. Yep. And
very excited about that. But youwon't go quite radio silent in
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the next couple of weeks. We'vegot some fun, bonus material
that we plan to release over thenext couple of weeks just so
that you know you continue tohear our dulcet tones. Yes, we
Kelli (04:03):
do have some bonus stuff planned. And also, we'll spend
the next couple of weeks sort ofplanning for season three,
because it's going to be alittle bit different. And we're
excited about it. Yeah,
Chris (04:11):
yeah. Awesome. So let's hit up Main Street. Let's
Kelli (04:14):
do it.
Chris (04:16):
Okay, so entertainment.
There's really one big news itemanybody that follows Disney as
close as we do, or even youwould have seen this on if you
follow Twitter, you would haveseen this trending all week was
Disney investor day, which tookplace a few days ago. And this
is actually I think needs to bebonus material. There's just too
(04:37):
much to go over Yeah, theyliterally released all of their
new projects on all of theirproperties. Hulu FX networks
Lucasfilm which is Star Wars,National Geographic Disney plus
TV series
Kelli (04:55):
all their media property
Chris (04:56):
all their media programs.
Yes, yes. Disney films, DisneyAnimation Pixar Marvel, they
have got like, long term amazingplans for all of these
platforms. And some of thereally exciting ones Star Wars
Marvel Disney Animation, Pixarreally need their own little
bonus episodes. So very excitedto try to dig into that. But it
(05:16):
makes me think about those twostorytellers in the Frozen Ever
After show that talk about allthe money. Oh, yeah, raining
money. That's that's just what Ikeep going through my head when
I see all this stuff thatthey're gonna release. Yes. So,
uh, Margot Robbie, I think ishow you pronounce her name. She
is going to be taking over thelead role in the Pirates of the
(05:40):
Caribbean movies.
Kelli (05:44):
Wow. Yeah. She's been in the previous No, no.
Chris (05:49):
So Johnny Depp has had a bit of a year as we all have,
but if you could make the yearworse his has been worse. And so
he lost some court cases andhe's been removed from Pirates
movies. He's been removed fromthe Fantastic Beasts Movies as
Gridelwald.
Unknown (06:11):
Wow.
Chris (06:12):
Yep. Mads Mickelson is going to be replacing him as
Grindelwald. In those movies hewas Le Chiffre in Casino Royale.
Kelli (06:19):
Oh, wow. That's creepier like Johnny Depp is kind of
crazy. Yeah, but Le Chiffre iscrazy.
Chris (06:24):
Yeah, he's been even creepier in other things he's
been in. It's a good person toput in that role. Sure. He'll do
great in that. just sort of sadfor Depp's career. I mean, his
career can literally be overnow. They had actually announced
a pirate's reboot at the sametime that they were still
working on Johnny Depp's newpirates movie, and Jerry
(06:46):
Bruckheimer was producing bothof them. But now I think, I
don't know this for sure. I'vejust tried to read between the
lines of the news, but it lookslike the one that Depp was going
to be in like the sixth orwhatever. Johnny Depp, Jack
Sparrow pirates movie is sort ofdead in the water. And ha
Kelli (07:04):
ha ha, ha. Oh, man.
Chris (07:06):
I didn't even plan that.
It sunk as it were. That'sawesome. So they're actually
going to reboot, I think theseries now with Margot Robbie as
the lead, okay. And it wouldjust go as all female led. So I
think it's written and directedby women. And she plays the
(07:26):
role. And the reason and thisactually was announced back in
June. And it just wasn't on myradar back then. But it came
back around in the news becauseshe has suggested that she wants
her character to be LGBTQfriendly.
Kelli (07:44):
Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.
Chris (07:45):
So very, very cool.
things going on in the pirates.
Yeah,
Kelli (07:51):
franchise there. That's fantastic. Yeah.
Chris (07:54):
So, some little resort stuff as of December the seventh
so this past week, because ofall the spiking COVID cases,
please wear masks people.
California has basically shuteverything down again. So as of
last week, Downtown Disney andone of us a street at Disneyland
where they had some restaurantsthat were open Oh,
Kelli (08:19):
those are shut down.
Chris (08:20):
The Disney run ones are absolutely shut down. some third
party restaurants are doing likecarry out service only. Wow. But
just
Kelli (08:30):
square one, really? And wear the masks.
Chris (08:34):
That's right man wear the masks. And for anyone that's
planning to go to Walt DisneyWorld over New Years, it's a
little bit it's very differentthis year, right? There's not
going to be midnight fireworkshows and all the parks like
they've done in years past so Ithought it was really nice. They
put out this little blurb on theon their website about how if
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you're going to be there everytwo years, how can you celebrate
like in your room? Oh, that'sright. So okay, you can you can
create your own in roomcelebration with food and
beverages and celebratory itemsfor purchase. So the Disney
floral and gifts company. Theyoffer holiday baskets that you
(09:19):
can buy various price rangesthat come with champagne and
party favors and party hats andnoisemakers all these kinds of
things in there. Yep, selectresort merchandise locations
will be open past midnight. Somequick service restaurants in
certain resorts will be openpast midnight so you can you
know bring food in. Some of theresorts will have like scavenger
(09:42):
hunts and New Year's Eve craftevents and stuff like that going
late into the evening. Sothey're they're really trying to
give guests that are going to bethere on New Year's something
that I can do that feelscelebratory. That's fun.
Obviously all the TVs runregular network. stations and so
they'll be able to see you know,New Year's Rockin Eve and all
(10:03):
that stuff. But Disney will alsohave, like their firework shows
their special firework showstheir New Year's Eve firework
show their mini special holidayfireworks. Okay, etc that will
have those streaming on.
Kelli (10:17):
Oh, now that's fun. I was gonna say they could still do
the fireworks in the park. Ornot in the park at midnight.
Yeah, I still do. Have
Chris (10:25):
you thought about that.
But like, if you did that, atMagic Kingdom, people are gonna
gather on the beach atPolynesian. Yeah. And they're
gonna gather on the rooftop orright there where the monorail
station is at contemporary andyeah, try to watch him. People,
people,
Kelli (10:42):
you know, people are constantly trying to write the
rules.
Chris (10:45):
We know first. So yeah, so that's all I've got that,
like said the big news was allthe stuff that came out of
Disney investor day. And I wouldrecommend if you're on Twitter,
go to Twitter, just hashtagDisney investor day. And you
could be there for a weekreading all the stuff that
they're doing. Yeah. What itwhat it tells me though is man
Disney is all in on theirstreaming services. They I am
(11:11):
absolutely for all the effortthey're putting in they put out
really quality content.
Kelli (11:16):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Okay, so that's all the news.
That's it. Okay. So do you wanta trivia question? This is the
last trivia question of theseason only
Chris (11:27):
because it has given you such stress,
Kelli (11:29):
last trivia question of the season. But I will say even
if we were going to do two moreepisodes, like this month, you
still wouldn't be able to evenbreak even you're at negative
375 right now, even if you getthis one, right, which you will,
and then you got the next two,right, you're still not going to
break even over the season.
Okay. So I mean, I'm just sayingyou know, pressures off, you're
(11:50):
not gonna you're not gonna dothis thing. Great. I know. I
stress these. Okay, here we go.
Disney introduced its firstanimated openly gay character in
which movie?
Chris (12:05):
Um, you know, this animated. Yeah. openly gay
character,
Kelli (12:11):
openly gay animated character and which may be done.
Chris (12:17):
I mean, I've got an answer, but I don't think it's
right.
Kelli (12:18):
Okay. Well, what's your answer?
Chris (12:20):
answers? Le Fu from Beauty and the Beast, but
Kelli (12:22):
he was not openly gay.
Not there. Right. Yeah,
Chris (12:25):
he went to the live action. Not
Kelli (12:26):
yet. He actually passed the Vito Russo test. But I mean,
Oh, lovely. horribly. Oh, wait,
Chris (12:31):
I know who it is. Yes. Is that is that is that police
Kelli (12:36):
telling me the name of the movie? Not the name of the
person.
Chris (12:38):
It's in. onward.
Kelli (12:40):
Yes. You make things so hard. Why are you making things
so hard?
I mean, I clearly said the nightin which movie? Yeah. And you're
like, Oh, it's Le Fu. Movie.
What is this movie?
Chris (13:00):
My I'm sorry. My executive functioning has taken
a dive
Kelli (13:04):
today are really struggling. really struggling
and I get it Honey, I get it.
I'm there. Let's let's go toTomorrowland. All right,
Chris (13:13):
I'm down with it. Okay, so my Tomorrowland. I saw some
folks talking about this idea onthe socials. And there's always
this running idea on socials.
What do you do? When you do it?
When you don't go to a park?
What does a non Park day looklike for you? Okay. And then
people always throw out lots ofgreat idea is whether it's pull
(13:36):
days or go to Disney Springs andwatch a movie or whatever. And
somebody threw out somethingthat I've heard before, but not
in this context. And it's agreat idea. This is a self
guided Yuletide tour of the WaltDisney resorts. Oh, wow. So
every Park has at least onespectacular Christmas tree.
(14:02):
Right. Okay. And so it's alwayseasy, or it's tempting just to
talk about the decor, theChristmas feel of the parks,
because they do a great job. Butyou can actually have this
wonderful day of DisneyChristmas awesomeness by just
touring some of the resorts.
(14:27):
Okay, and I have to say that andthat's free by the way you're
right Disney you spend a freeday just filling up on Christmas
cheer,
Kelli (14:35):
right? I don't know that.
It might be kitten might not bekid friendly.
Chris (14:39):
Yeah, maybe Yeah. more of an adult thing.
Unknown (14:41):
I'm very cool with that. But
Chris (14:42):
you can feed them a lot of you know, Christmas. Oh,
sugar. Sugar him up.
Kelli (14:47):
Yeah, put him on the monorail code v.
Or on the monorail was wheresomeone had an upset stomach.
And the monorail person yell,Code V.
Chris (15:06):
I knew that's what they did when when we had a situation
like that, but I had notactually seen it in action. And
Kelli (15:12):
it was really a very real thing. Okay, so go ahead, sorry.
So yuletide cheer.
Chris (15:19):
Yuletide cheer. So yeah, so there's the Disney resorts
just go over and above when itcomes to decorating for
Christmas, and the good peopleat Disney tourists blog, have a
wonderful and I was thinking Iwas like, how do I do this? How
(15:39):
do I talk about like goingaround and seeing the Disney
decor at the resorts, Disneytourist blog, I highly recommend
go to their site, they do awonderful job. They have
actually put out a a step bystep guide on how to most
efficiently go from place toplace to place to place and what
(16:00):
to look for specific. Oh,
Kelli (16:01):
wow, how much fun is that?
Chris (16:04):
Yeah. And they like started the Magic Kingdom and
walk here and then take themonorail to here and then go
back to here and take the ferryto here and they literally and
then they tell you what to lookfor. in great detail. That's
fantastic resort. Yeah. So theyso go there and get that tool
step by step. They do like a oneday tour and a two day tour. Or
(16:25):
resorts. Yeah. So just justthey, I'm really wanting to make
sure that we hear about dizzytours blog.com because they put
a lot of effort into that. Andit had to be wonderful to go.
Kelli (16:37):
Seriously just to create that. Yes, that's something we'd
love to do. And you'd bust outyour spreadsheet in a heartbeat
map that kind of thing out
Chris (16:44):
and they have and they clearly had a good time because
they put a lot of effort intoit. So go check that out Disney
tours blog.com So, and I'm goingto be talking about some of
these resorts I'm talking aboutsome of my favorite ones that
some of these we have never seena Christmas before. Okay, and
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but I'm excited about it becausebecause I know at least one of
them. We're going to see thistime Okay, this I'm going to
talk about gingerbread houseseven though in 2020 they don't
have gingerbread houses rightwhich is a bummer. Some of the
resorts that typically havedecor are not even open like
port Orleans Riverside andFrench Quarter. Polly has
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usually has this big beautifulChristmas tree in the lobby but
probably doesn't this yearbecause of all the construction
that they're doing. And but youknow just in case you want to
plan for 2021 when everything isgoing to absolutely be better
right? Right Please tell me yesit's and gingerbread houses we
back and all that so well. Let'stalk about it a little bit.
(17:50):
Okay, so the first one on mylist here we have done before is
the Grand Floridian in terms oftheir their christmas decor. The
Grand Floridian was was just oneof these it's it's a stop for
people anyway yeah my grandmomyeah could not go to Disney
without going to the GrandFloridian
Kelli (18:10):
right it's beautiful it not during Christmas,
Chris (18:12):
right? But then at Christmas time they've got this
huge four storey lobby that'sdominated by this huge Christmas
tree that goes up to the verytop floor it's it's all gold and
silver and why they've got like,like literal bird cages on the
Christmas tree and birds andit's it's just so massive and
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pretty. And then you got theirgrand piano on the floor, you
know and all the garland goingaround the railings. Yeah, but
the other thing about whatdominates the lobby of the Grand
Floridian is their gingerbreadhouse right? Their gingerbread
house is literally a 14 foottall functional house. Okay? It
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serves
Kelli (18:56):
different every year This isn't a kit they put together
they build a literally
Chris (19:00):
and all these I'm going to mention multiple gingerbread
houses remember they they theyliterally bake these things and
assemble and build them. Butwhat makes this one stand out is
that it's actually a functionalsnack shack. They literally sell
things out of it knickknacks andand treats and candies and all
these
Kelli (19:20):
special on Disney plus about the gingerbread house
building. I thought we watchedsomething oh there.
Unknown (19:25):
We did watch. I think there
Kelli (19:27):
is you go out there and look for this one. Yeah, because
it's amazing. It's
Chris (19:31):
the building that gingerbread
Kelli (19:32):
I think it is. Yeah, yeah, go watch that.
Chris (19:34):
Yep. So but the what is widely considered the best place
to go at Disney for Christmas isthe Wilderness Lodge. Disney
tourist blog set it like this.
Wilderness Lodge is the besthotel at Christmas. Not just in
Walt Disney World, anywhere. Thedecorations, the music, the tree
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or Are all gorgeous and rifewith detail. And this is truly a
matter of the whole thing beingthe sum of it better than the
sum of its parts. Again, wow,this is a, this is another, my
favorite ones are all gonna havea theme here. They're all these
huge grand lobbies with multifloors and these trees that
dominate the rights, thelandscape there. But what my
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impression that I get out ofWilderness Lodge is we've never
been here at Christmas time. Inmy recollection Anyway, what I
get out of this is that this isthe one where when you walk
through the doors, youlegitimately feel like you have
stepped out of wherever it wasyou were Florida, and you have
stepped into the CanadianNorthwestern Pacific Northwest
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wilderness at Christmas time.
Covered woods, you know, andyou, you assume that the outside
world is just covered with snow.
Because of this Christmas onbeyond that you're that you've
just stepped into the tree iscovered with like, little Native
American teepees that flickerbecause they've got fires
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supposedly fire on the inside ofthem, right. And handmade,
decorative animals from thePacific Northwest. And, again,
the tree is massive. And they'vegot all these other trees
scattered throughout the lobbyarea in the sitting area. How
cute. It's just it just takesover your senses. For for
Christmas, right? And the otherone that I'm really excited
(21:31):
about seeing and we're going todefinitely see it on this trip
is Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Kelli (21:36):
I'm excited about that.
YouTube, we've never been there.
Chris (21:38):
We've never stepped in the building at all ever in my
life. This is another one ofthese grand lobbies. multitier
with a tree that dominates itreally takes the same sort of
plan for Christmas thatWilderness Lodge does. Some
people actually think it'sbetter. But where the Wilderness
Lodge had Pacific Northwesttheming on the tree. This has
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African theming on the tree. Soa lot of African animals in
handcrafts and wicker Africaninstruments. Okay. And then you
again, you've got the garlandand what really just sets these
places over the top is themusic, the Christmas loops that
they play. Each resort has loopsdesigned specifically for that
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resort. Oh, wow. So you canactually go on YouTube. If you
want to take a little miniChristmas vacation in your own
home, you can go into YouTubeand find a lot of these
Christmas loops with likeimagery from those resorts
Kelli (22:40):
on YouTube. Should totally do that. While we're
opening presents on Christmas. I
Chris (22:43):
think that's exactly what we're gonna do. You know, I
started listening to the MagicKingdom loop while I was working
recently. But But I think thatthat's what they say is that
these the music with with thedecor, it just is you you
literally are no longer like atDisney. You're just in a
Christmas Wonderland. And that'sexciting. Yeah, some of
Kelli (23:07):
the other day for that.
No, we
Chris (23:09):
don't have a day for that this year. But that would be
Kelli (23:11):
I would totally be up Yeah. Beach Club
Chris (23:14):
is also a big deal. I didn't even get to all the the
gingerbread houses but YachtClub boardwalk and Grand Destino
Tower are also other resortsthat Disney tours blog said that
you absolutely must get to. Weshould
Kelli (23:27):
do that one year.
Chris (23:29):
People talk about taking a resort tour, even when it's
not Christmas time. Right. Butdoing it at Christmas time would
just be great. And you can do itin a day. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. So that will be that'sthat's my Tomorrowland. And is
the Yuletide Christmas tour theDisney resorts.
Kelli (23:46):
Well, that's awesome.
You're ready. I'm ready forWorld showcase. Yeah. So in
honor of losing Stacy, last weekwith must do Disney. I came up
with the top
Chris (23:58):
five Stacy still alive by the way she's alive.
Kelli (24:01):
She's not in the resorts.
I came up with the top five mustdues for us at Disney World
during Christmas. Okay. Now, tobe clear, this does not include
the candlelight processional. Wediscussed that last week and it
only includes things that areincluded in a standard
admission. Okay, in addition toeating right, I'm not including
festival the holidays or thingslike that. This is again like
free stuff you can do five mustdues at Disney at Christmas.
(24:22):
Awesome. Number one,
Chris (24:26):
okay,
Kelli (24:27):
get a Christmas ornament.
We do this at every trip, notjust at Christmas trip. That's
right. There's a permanentChristmas store at Disney
Springs. But then there's also agreat Christmas store in Magic
Kingdom. And you can getChristmas ornaments throughout
Epcot around the world showcaseand all those so we love to buy
Christmas ornaments. So I'mgoing to tell the pixie dust
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story, okay. Very first ornamentI want you on I'm not making fun
of this lady. We are we arenothing but All of what these
women can do. But if you've everwatched the ornament decorators,
they're usually older women thathave been doing this for years.
And they just have, it's justamazing to watch them do it.
(25:10):
Well, one year we were at theDisney Springs shop. It was one
of our first years getting anornament. And we've said the
words that we wanted. And thelady looked at us and she goes,
you want pixie dust. I did notsee that voice coming out of
(25:31):
that face. And it completelycaught me off guard. But I have
to tell you, we said yes then.
And we've said yes to everyorder that
Chris (25:42):
says yes, I forget to ask us and we say I want the pixie
dust and we have some pixiedust. I
Kelli (25:46):
want the pixie dust. So pro tip if you get an ornament,
get the pixie dust. Yes, you
Chris (25:52):
want the Pixie it's different every time but it's
always perfect.
Kelli (25:56):
Yes. So number two, see the gingerbread house at the
Grand Floridian. So again, likeyou said it's not there this
year, but normally it is lifesize. And like you said they do
have some things that you canbuy in their little shop. They
have cakepops cookie bars, youcan buy your own signature
house, it's like $60 is alreadydecorated. And even like gluten
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free items, they also have mugsand like limited edition pins.
But I think probably the coolesttakeaway is you can actually
purchase a shingle to take homethat's why they sell the
shingles. Isn't that cool? Solet me just give you a breakdown
on last year's ingredients forthe house. 1050 pounds of honey
(26:40):
140 pints of egg whites 600pounds of powdered sugar
powdered sugar is light y'all
Chris (26:48):
600 pounds of that junk.
Kelli (26:50):
It's a lot of bad sugar.
700 pounds of chocolate. 800pounds of flour. 35 pounds of
spices, tons of creativity,Disney magic and pixie dust 400
hours and 10,000 total shinglesjingyan gingerbread insane
right? That's insane. Crazy.
Yes. So seeing the gingerbreadhouse at the Grand Floridian
(27:12):
we've always done every timewe've been at Christmas. We've
seen the gingerbread house atthe Grand Floridian. Number
three must do number three. Seethe reindeer and the nutcrackers
in the parade. This year, therecavalcades and this isn't Magic
Kingdom. Yes. Magic Kingdom hasand I I should have worn my
(27:33):
reindeer shirt tonight. I didn'teven think about it. Oh, bummer.
Magic Kingdom has thesereindeer. Oh, I think they're
hilarious.
Chris (27:45):
They are hilarious.
Kelli (27:46):
They're kind of like stiff
Chris (27:49):
they're very stiff,
Kelli (27:50):
stiff right here. I think that people inside, like see out
their neck or so they
Chris (27:54):
see out like right around their chest neck area. So
everything above that is juststiff.
Kelli (28:00):
Well, one year we went to the very merry christmas party.
Yes. And those reindeer weredancing on the dance floor at
Cosmic Rays. Or like
Chris (28:09):
cafe had turned that into like a DJ party for kids.
Kelli (28:12):
It was the best dance party I've ever seen with those
reindeer. And I'm telling youthey were dancing their little
reindeer butts off, they wereman.
Chris (28:19):
I have never seen reindeer work as hard to get
kids to dance.
Kelli (28:22):
I was so excited to see that the shirt they were selling
for the very merry party had thereindeer on it that year and I
got that I was so proud of thatshirt. I was like I love these
reindeer.
Chris (28:34):
They're shaking it man
Kelli (28:36):
shaking it and you think I hope those costumes have fans
or air conditioning or like aCamelback water. Arabia are
working their butts. Anyway, sothey're also in the parade.
Yeah, I love the rain beer. Alsolove I said the nutcrackers but
are they toy
Chris (28:54):
soldier their toy soldiers their toy
Kelli (28:55):
soldiers. Okay, so I love the toy soldiers in the parade.
And they have like flat feet.
Yeah. So when they come through,it's like clomp, clom
Chris (29:03):
clomp, clomp. But in unison. They're they're stepping
in time. It's so
Kelli (29:08):
it's fantastic. So they're all they're both in the
cavalcades this year. Really?
Yes, the reindeer and the toysoldiers are in the cavalcade.
That's great. I can't wait. SoI'm telling you like I'm more
excited to see them than I amMickey and Minnie in their
Christmas cavalcade of lovethose reindeer once a year. I
love those reindeer and I lovethose toy soldiers so much
(29:29):
I know right? They're likerobots, right with the clomp,
clomp, clomp. I love them. Okay,number four. Ride the Jingle
Cruise at Magic Kingdom. Yes.
Chris (29:42):
It's a must.
Kelli (29:42):
must do. Must do Disney must do. I should have I should
like go back and watch thatvideo so that I could say it
just like Stacey did. Yeah,
Chris (29:49):
you're doing fine.
Kelli (29:50):
Yeah, let's do Disney. So ride the Jingle Cruise at Magic
Kingdom. There's somethingreally corny about this ride at
Christmas time.
Chris (30:00):
I mean, it's corny all the way all the time.
Kelli (30:02):
But at Christmas time they get to, they get all new
jokes on corny jokes. All new
Chris (30:07):
Christmas corny jokes,
Kelli (30:08):
Christmas corny jokes, you had the regular corny jokes
and now you've got the Christmascorny jokes. It's fantastic.
They change the names of all theboats to have to do with
Christmas. And they change theactual name of the ride up on
the the sign outside. So let'ssay
Chris (30:26):
Jungle Cruise, Jingle Cruise Jingle Cruise. It's got
like a candy cane where they'resupposed to.
Kelli (30:30):
Yes, great. And they really do decorate every inch of
this thing. Except for the backside. of water. I cannot
decorate the back side. That'sright.
Chris (30:43):
They put like they put like garland on the camp side
that's out there that the gearsoverturned by the animals and
they they don't skimp onanything.
Kelli (30:54):
No. And I just always think of like when you're going
through the tunnel. They've evenput things in the title. And you
think who like Who did this? whospends this much time? Like
decorating Jingle Cruise
Chris (31:07):
I know. And like they come up with it every year, they
come up with new things everynew jokes every
Kelli (31:11):
year, right? So I was watching a YouTube video of
somebody going through theJungle Cruise. And I noticed
something that I've nevernoticed before you know you love
these details. And you youtotally get all the details. And
they just go right over my headbecause I'm like we're on the
Jungle Cruise. Whoo. And then Iget off and I go to another. I'm
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not adulting and you're likekeeping a spreadsheet of all of
the interconnected jokes. Thatthe guy towards the end the
headhunter. That is trader Sam.
Trader Sam is a store at poly.
Unknown (31:48):
Yes.
Kelli (31:50):
I did not. put those two things together. I know
Chris (32:01):
Kelli.
Kelli (32:02):
Well anyway, in the Jungle Cruise he's trader samta.
And then great.
Chris (32:13):
We are in our mid 40s and laughing like kids about that
joke.
Kelli (32:17):
I don't know. The jokes.
I think like vaguely remind meof Chevy Chase jokes.
Chris (32:23):
Yeah,
Kelli (32:24):
there's some physical humor. There's some like really
corn humor. You can't see theline can you Russ? Have a log
not a log not a yule log. Whatdo you think yule log like it
vaguely reminds me of betterlike her you know Chris vacation
Really? childish
Chris (32:44):
humor really
Kelli (32:44):
childish humor that frankly, we just don't need more
of Okay, and number five andthis is last but most definitely
not least. Snoap. Yes. TheSnoap.
Chris (32:58):
I can remember the first time I saw it. the snoap, I
thought I had stepped into amagical Wonderland.
Kelli (33:02):
Right? It's snowing in Florida. Right.
Chris (33:06):
And it is it feels like snow.
Kelli (33:09):
It does it looks like snow. It feels like snow.
There's Christmas music playingand they do this I believe at
every Park now we've never statewe've ever been an animal
kingdom light enough for them todo snoap.
Chris (33:19):
Yeah, I don't know that they do it. I don't know if they
do it at Epcot or animalkingdom. I've just never I don't
remember ever seeing it okay ineither place. But they
definitely definitely used to doit at Hollywood Studios when
they had the Osborn lights. Andwhen when they launched the snow
on Main Street, USA. I just Ijust I just want to sit there
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and maybe get a little misty. Imean, it is just the best.
Kelli (33:47):
So there you go, folks, that's your top five.
Chris (33:51):
that is a serious public service that you just performed.
You're
Kelli (33:55):
all welcome. Top Five must do's at Disney World during
Christmas. So Christmasornament. Gingerbread House at
the Grand Floridian. reindeerand toy soldiers in the parade
at Magic Kingdom. Ride theJungle Cruise and play in the
snoap. I
Chris (34:10):
love it. It's so perfect.
I'm all ready to go. I'm gonnaleave tonight. Folks, that's
this week's show. It was ourlast show of this year 2020 is
gonna be gone when we do thenext show.
Yes excited about that.
But keep an eye out for bonusmaterial. If you enjoyed the
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show, go to iTunes leave us arating leave us a review and we
will just watch all those citiesdownload next week.
Kelli (34:40):
Yes, absolutely. Which I'm sure one of them will be
Paducah, Kentucky. Or BeaufortSouth Carolina
Chris (34:45):
or Columbia, South Carolina.
Kelli (34:46):
And if you're looking for more things Disney visit
SCFadp.com. That's SCFadp.com. Sfor super, C for cali, F for
fragilistic, A for awesome, Dfor Disney, P for podcast. We
did not put anything bonus outthere. We did not Make our
Chris (35:00):
third recipe, the mac and cheese
Kelli (35:02):
so the mac and cheese when we get back,
Chris (35:04):
yes so but we will be putting out additional we'll
make the mac and cheese when wecome back and we'll be putting
out some additional fun stufffun stuff between now and season
three. So be on lookout forthat. Join us for the
conversation on Instagram andTwitter at SCFADP. We're going
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ove to hear from you. And withhat, we hope to see you real
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